Zoltan,

Your posts ARE getting through. But you cannot force anybody to answer you
you can ask your colleagues for help hoping that they would. If someone
CAN help and WANTS to help you will get some answer based on his/her
expertise.
At least I got all your mailings even the re-post.

Trying to answer to your UNICODE question:
Most probably your problem is caused not by UNICODE but by server upgrade.
In this list we have seen many posting about DB and STGPOOL usage growing
after upgrade with appropriate corrective actions suggested in answers. Try
them and see will this help.
Also try the latest-latest client "final Golden Edition of the V4.2.0
Windows client" dated 15-th of July.

According to Tivoli statements
(http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/compatibility.html):
      "Data that has been backed up from a Tivoli Storage Manager Version
4.2 client to any Tivoli Storage Manager server can be restored using a
Tivoli Storage Manager Version 4.1 client, with the exceptions of the
Windows Version 4.2 client and any Version 4.2 clients using encryption. "
      "A Tivoli Storage Manager Version 4.2 client can perform backup,
restore, archive and retrieve functions to a Tivoli Storage Manager Version
4.1 server. "
BUT be aware that for the latest v4.2.0 client there is a strict statement
(ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v4r2/Windows/WinNT/v420/TSM420GA_READ1STC.TXT)
:
"  - Data that has been backed up or archived from this V4.2 Tivoli Storage
Manager client cannot be restored or retrieved to any previous level
client, regardless of the server level. The data must be restored or
retrieved by a 4.2.0 level or higher client."


Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant




Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU> on 23.08.2001 19:41:56
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Subject:        Are my posts getting through ?

I have asked 3-questions in the past week and have not gotten a single
response to any of them !!!!!

What gives !!!

I get an acknowledgement from the LISTSERVER that says it got my message ?

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Zoltan Forray
Virginia Commonwealth University
University Computing Center
e-mail: zforray AT vcu DOT edu
voice: 804-828-4807







Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT VCU DOT EDU> on 15.08.2001 21:00:59
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
cc:

Subject:        TSM 4.2 client and UNICODE

I haven't gotten any responses to this message, so maybe it got lost !!!!

Any suggestions from anyone, on what to do ?

If I go back to 4.1.3, what about what was backed up with 4.2.0 ?

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I was just bitten by the UNICODE issue ("fioScanDirEntry(): Can't map
object") with the TSM 4.2 client and a W2K server client.  I did not
realize there was a requirement to use the 4.2 client  that also required
the 4.2 server (no, I cannot install the TSM 4.2 server on OS390. Since it
is a COST upgrade, I could not justfy it. The only way I got to 4.1.3 was
because 3.1 had long expired).

In fact, I thing the UNICODE issue has caused this client to go from 4-5GB
backup to over 20GB (I canceled it after I saw all the errors in the
DSMERROR.LOG file as well as the numerous blank and screwy entries in the
DSMSCHED.LOG file).

No, I can not ask the server owner to turn off UNICODE support since this
is a university (note the "versity" part, as in "diversity").

Any way to get around this issue ?   So far, the only thing I can figure
is going back to the 4.1.3 client.

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Zoltan Forray
Virginia Commonwealth University
University Computing Center
e-mail: zforray AT vcu DOT edu
voice: 804-828-4807